Chicago PD Officers Placed On Desk Duty After Busting Drug Dealer In I.A Commander’s Car

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The niece of a Chicago police chief warned officers last month that her “auntie’s probably your boss” when they took possession of the high-ranking cop’s Lexus during a big heroin bust in East Garfield Park, video from a body-worn camera shows.

“My auntie’s a police officer,” the niece of Internal Affairs Chief Yolanda Talley then says in the footage of the Feb. 1 incident, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times in response to a Freedom of Information request. “This is her car.”

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Talley’s niece was behind the wheel when narcotics officers saw the passenger, 34-year-old Kenneth Miles, toss 84 baggies of heroin from the car in the 500 block of North Saint Louis Avenue, according to police reports. Talley wasn’t there.

The officers who arrested Miles were placed on desk duty without explanation, the Sun-Times has reported.

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A high-ranking police official previously said the move to pull the officers off the street could have only come from Supt. David Brown, First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter or Cato.

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CPD announced Talley's promotion to head the Bureau of Internal Affairs, the unit responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct, in December.

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Yolanda Talley, chief of internal affairs for the Chicago Police Department

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